Competitive Manuscript Award Committee | American Accounting Association

Carry out all activities to determine recipients of the Competitive Manuscript Award. Specifically:

Actively seek and submit nominations
Review and evaluate nominations
Current Committee members who are nominated for the award will be asked to either recuse themselves from the Committee or remove their nomination from consideration.
Select up to three recipients of the award based on the award criteria, observing subject matter interest, depth of research, contribution to knowledge, and organization of subject matter
Chair presents the Award(s) at the AAA Annual Meeting
If the Chair has any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this committee, s/he should contact the Executive Director, the President, or the Committee's Board of Directors Liaison.

Name / Affiliation	Contact	Term Length	Term Expires
Chair
Nemit Shroff Massachusetts Institute of Technology	shroff@mit.edu	2	08/2018
Members
Mark C. Anderson University of Calgary	andem@ucalgary.ca	1	08/2018
Eddy Cardinaels KU Leuven	eddy.cardinaels@kuleuven.be	1	08/2018
Jackie Hammersley University of Georgia	jhammers@uga.edu	1	08/2018
Ranjani Krishnan Michigan State University	krishnan@bus.msu.edu	1	08/2018
Anne Magro George Mason University	amagro@gmu.edu	1	08/2018
Board of Directors Liaison
Terry Shevlin Vice President–Research & Publications University of California-Irvine	tshevlin@uci.edu

September 1 – January 31 – Actively seek and submit nominations
February 15 – April 15 – Review nominations, participate on conference calls and email discussions at the discretion of the Chair, and select up to three recipients
August – Chair presents the award(s) at the AAA Annual Meeting

September - January 31	February 15 - April 15	June	August
Actively seek and submit nominations	Review nominations, participate on conference calls and email discussions, at the discretion of the Chair Select up to three award recipients based on award criteria Chair notifies the Professional Staff Liaison of the winner(s) by April 15th at awards@aaahq.org	The Chair will have the opportunity to prepare and send a progress report in June which will be available for the Board of Directors to review at their August meeting. This report should include accomplishments and suggested modifications and should be sent to the AAA President, the Committee's Board of Directors Liaison, and Professional Staff Liaison, Barbara Gutierrez. (barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org)	Chair presents the award(s) at the AAA Annual Meeting

Questions? Please contact Barbara Gutierrez, Professional Staff Liaison, at barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org or 941-556-4117

Five or six members plus a voting Chair are appointed annually by the Council Committee on Awards Committee.
Care should be taken that the Committee include members with a range of expertise, who are knowledgeable about exceptional, current accounting research,
And to be sure the Committee includes one member knowledgeable in the field of quantitative analysis and another knowledgeable in behavioral science.